Attending different meditation groups is because different styles have different outcomes. Some meditation styles aim for physical relaxation, others for emotional calm. Yet others try for mental peace, even spiritual happiness.

Teaching meditation is not about simply going to a meditation class. It's about finding what aspect of your being you need to improve - and then choosing a meditation style that's most likely to help that specific need.

Yesterday I loved the Rottingdean meditation group, because they're attempting something relatively unique. Their meditation seems aimed at achieving a state of mind conducive to automatic writing...

Automatic writing is "the unconditional act of writing without using conscious thought."

The one hour session was split into three 20 minute segments.

First came physical relaxation, Theresa's Greek-type stretching exercises. We reached high to the left to pick juicy golden sun-kissed grapes. Then high to the right. Then bent forwards to connect with earth energy flows. Then backwards to open up the body's energy centres. Two of each took 20 minutes.

Then we sat around a large table for 20 minutes. Theresa's sweet voice guided us into gentle, subtle emotional calming, towards mental peace.

When everyone felt physically relaxed, emotionally calm, and at peace mentally, Theresa asked us to use pens and paper on the table in front of us, and write for 20 minutes, any thought, unconditionally.

The relaxed, calm and peaceful state we were in made it easy to access higher consciousnesses. Thoughts immediately flowed onto paper from all present. Writings flowed on how to resolve or achieve life's 'stuff' positively, effectively, harmlessly.

By the end of the hour, everyone wore broad smiles. Perhaps unconsciously some knew it wasn't their own higher consciousnesses they'd accessed.

Perhaps they'd accessed the higher consciousness of their guides or gods or masters or ancestors or angels, and gained insightful wisdom at last.

Whether writings came from within or without, therapeutic benefits seemed to bring happiness and joy... :-)

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See my weird-but-true first blog post on December 1st 2011, for an overview of my polymath, joyful and horrid fairy tale life. Taste the yummy, Godly, disgusting and loving ingredients of future posts - all truthful, with just a little artistic licence.

If writing is the fruit of sin, I must have sinned greatly. Otherwise how was I cured after decades of being 80% disabled; how did I earn merits at a university creative writing course for poetry, fiction and non-fiction; and how did I travel and lecture on TV and radio internationally? I must surely have sinned in wonderfully fun ways.